On 11 May 2012 08:28, Charles W Brickner wrote:
>> How would any of your languages deal with a Levirate marriage?
>
> Dealing with it linguistically would be easy. The widow (mhíðmhus) merely
> marries (mhéda) her brother-in-law (sekúrus). But is that kind of a union
> permitted in one's culture? Because the various procreating Sefdaanian
> Peoples are extended families, large or small, there's always someone to
> care for a widow and/or orphans and levirate marriages are not necessary.

Even if something is not appropriate for one's own culture, one could
still have language to describe what one observes in other cultures.